SmashingConf
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Smashing Conferences, friendly, practical events for web designers and developers. Organized by Vitaly, Amanda, Charis, Mac, Jan & the good ol' Smashing Family.
27-01-2012 16:57:13
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A little less than 7 hours until our Smashing Meets event. A free event for the community with four lovely talks by Henri Helvetica ππΉ π¨πΎβπ π, Rachel Andrew, Christian Nwamba and Yiying Lu π³ π₯π§.
Live captioning is available.
hopin.to/events/smashinβ¦
SmashingConf Henri Helvetica ππΉ π¨πΎβπ π Rachel Andrew Christian Nwamba Yiying Lu π³ π₯π§ βA little less than 7 hoursβ means when? I figure 6:30PM means 18:30 for the majority of the world, but what time zone? Is it already converted to my local time (+02:00), i.e. 16:30 UTC?
Gunnar Bittersmann SmashingConf Rachel Andrew Christian Nwamba Yiying Lu π³ π₯π§ my time is 1230 EDT, 930 PST, so that sounds correct: 1630 UTC. phew.
Henri Helvetica ππΉ π¨πΎβπ π SmashingConf Rachel Andrew Christian Nwamba Yiying Lu π³ π₯π§ To convert to the userβs time zone is a smart thing to do, but not telling is less smart.
Gunnar Bittersmann Henri Helvetica ππΉ π¨πΎβπ π Rachel Andrew Christian Nwamba Yiying Lu π³ π₯π§ The Hopin page should give the timings in your timezone. But yeah, timezones are haaaaard.
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SmashingConf Henri Helvetica ππΉ π¨πΎβπ π Rachel Andrew Christian Nwamba Yiying Lu π³ π₯π§ My critique went to Hopin, not to you, obviously.
As I already said, always tell the time zone when you have an international audience in mind.
Also do so when you donβt have them in mind, because your audience might be larger than you think.
Gunnar Bittersmann Henri Helvetica ππΉ π¨πΎβπ π Rachel Andrew Christian Nwamba Yiying Lu π³ π₯π§ Just after the time it shows the timezone, itβs subtle :)
Gunnar Bittersmann Henri Helvetica ππΉ π¨πΎβπ π Rachel Andrew Christian Nwamba Yiying Lu π³ π₯π§ Ohhhhh! It shows the Hong Kong timezone here, should happen there too. Iβll tell the Hopin people, theyβre working super hard on their platform.
